Jensen Ackles to Play Justin Hartley’s Brother on Tracker

Justin Hartley unveiled that Supernatural alum Jensen Ackles will portray his estranged brother on the strike CBS drama collection, Tracker.

Hartley, 47, who portrays Colter Shaw, shared the exciting casting news with followers in a online video posted by means of Instagram on Thursday, April 25.

“It’s been a great response, we’re thrilled and about the moon,” the This Is Us alum started right after thanking supporters for supporting the show in its initially period. “I have a little little bit of information for you. We have been conversing about Russell Shaw, my brother, all period, [with] this family drama which is been heading on concerning Colter and Russell.”

He continued, “We finally came up with what I consider is the excellent casting choice. This individual knocks it out of the park each time.”

Ahead of his expose, Ackles, 46, could be listened to tapping on anything in the background. Immediately after Hartley recurring the phrase “knocks it out the park just about every time” whilst searching visibly irritated, he flipped the digicam to the Days of Our Life alum, who was enjoying an arcade game.

“We agreed to do this alongside one another, but he is in the center of a little something,” he joked in advance of ending the video clip by posing with Ackles.

“I had far too considerably fun mixing it up with you, Hartley. Let us do it yet again,” Ackles wrote in the opinions part of the publish.

Admirers could not consist of their pleasure on listening to the news, with just one social media user creating, “This is Outstanding casting, Jensen and you are undoubtedly slice from the similar cloth of awesomeness.” One more extra, “So excited! Most effective casting choice for absolutely sure and you two will have wonderful display screen brother chemistry.”

Ackles is slated to make his Tracker debut in the Might 12 episode.

Though this is Hartley and Ackles’ very first time working jointly, Tracker reunited Hartley with his This Is Us costar, Jon Huertas.

Even though speaking solely with Us Weekly previously this month, Huertas, 54, opened up about directing an approaching episode of the series and how Hartley – who also serves as producer – manufactured his time on the Tracker established so easy.

“Because Justin and I had this history with each other, it was like we just fell in lockstep again from when I directed him on This Is Us [and] when we worked together in scenes as stepfather and stepson,” Huertas shared. “We fell into that rhythm so normally that it was straightforward. It built it definitely effortless.”

He ongoing, “Justin has such a take care of on his character [Colter Shaw] and I feel like the writer of the episode [Sharon Lee Watson], the showrunner Elwood [Reid] and Ken Olin really in prep bought me deep plenty of into the story so that Justin and I aligned when it arrived time to commence filming.”

Tracker airs on CBS Sundays at 9 p.m. ET. New episodes stream the future working day on Paramount+.